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Elvis, by Andy Warhol is a part of the permanent exhibit of the Akron Museum of Art.

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"In his book on Warhol, David Boudron explains how the Elvis paintings were made:

One Sunday afternoon in 1963, when his regular assistant, Gerard Malanga, was not around, Andy pressed me into service, helping him silkscreen a batch of the silver Elvis Presley paintings. They were made on the top floor of an old firehouse on East 87th Street that he was renting as a studio. I was inexperienced at dragging the heavy squeegee across the screen, so my sections of the full-length portraits were not as crisp and mechanical-looking as he wanted. Andy complained that I was making them too arty, and perhaps I was doing it on purpose, because I preferred the ‘imperfect" silkscreenings with overlapping edges and expressionist smudges. Our aesthetic differences were resolved one rainy night when a heavy downpour leaked through the roof and destroyed all the paintings. Andy redid them his way. "

From Wikipedia:
"The Ferus show closed on August 4, 1962, the day before Marilyn Monroe’s death. Warhol went on to purchase a Monroe publicity still from the film Niagara, which he later cropped and used to create one of his most well-known works: his painting of Marilyn. Although Warhol continued painting other pop art, including Martinson’s coffee cans, Coca-Cola bottles, S&H Green Stamps, and Campbell’s Soup cans, he soon became known to many as the artist who painted celebrities. He returned to Blum’s gallery to exhibit Elvis and Liz in October 1963. "

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